Director Chair
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Camera

Shot sizes 16Angles 17Camera moves 43Rigs 6Lenses 10Focus and depth 4

Frame

Composition 14Aspect ratios 11

Light and look

Light 22Time of day 12Colour looks 14Film stock and texture 9Art styles 6

People and places

Characters 6Expressions 31Settings 6

Motion

Subject motion and speed 9

Edit

Transitions 21Edit effects 41Sound 14

Story

Hooks 46Script arcs 10Video formats 11Calls to action 5Test and publish 16

Recipes

Presets 28Prompt guides 11

Tools

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Frame the speaker wide enough to show the edit desk: two monitors with a timeline, a control surface, headphones on a hook.

Hooks

The setting does the targeting

The right viewer recognises their own world before a word is spoken.

Use when
Niche audiences: a trade, a profession, a hobby.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. Frame the speaker wide enough to show the edit desk: two monitors with a timeline, a control surface, headphones on a hook. Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

Watch out

Related

Point at the lens: if you run a shop with fewer than five people, this is for you.

Direct addressPrompt

Keeps body language and the space around the person while the face stays readable.

Medium wide shotPrompt

One short visual, one spoken sentence and one line on screen in the first three seconds, all saying the same thing to one kind of viewer.

A hook has three jobsPrompt

Sources

Own words from Director Chair field notes on hooks and ideas Checked 2026-11-13.

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